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04.17.2024
India-Israel Worker Deal Looks like Indentured Servitude / Michelle Buckley & Paula Chakravartty
We wrap up the week with geographer Michelle Buckley and media scholar Paula Chakravartty co-wrote the Boston Review article, "Labor and the Bibi-Modi 'Bromance': The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the...
04.16.2024
The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped / Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt returns to discuss her Aeon article, "The southern gap: In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Keri's article here: https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south Help keep...
04.15.2024
Accenture Is Taking Over Police Reform in LA County / Alec Karakatsanis & Hamid Khan
This Is Hell! returns from Spring Break! Alec Karakatsanis and Hamid Khan join Chuck to discuss consulting and biometrics giant Accenture's quiet takeover of police reform in Los Angeles County, California. Check out Akela Lacy's article on that process: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/12/los-angeles-jail-accenture-measure-j/ Help keep...
04.04.2024
The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview. Check out Steven's...
04.02.2024
Judicial Supremacy in the US / Lisa Heinzerling
Lisa Heinzerling on her Boston Review article, “The Judicial War on Government: The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself." Check out Lisa's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-judicial-war-on-government/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly...
03.27.2024
Hamas' Journey from Charitable Org to National Liberation Force / Assaf Kfoury
We wrap up the week with Assaf Kfoury who wrote the Cosmonaut article, "Hamas From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe." Check out Assaf's article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/hamas-from-candidate-enforcer-to-implacable-foe/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to...
03.26.2024
Lederhosen Nazis, "Dancing Queen," and other Vibes from CPAC 2024 / Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle on The Baffler Magazine article, “Lost at CPAC: The paranoid style in conservative politics.” "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Gaby's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/lost-at-cpac-del-valle Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by...
03.26.2024
The Shoah After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra discusses his London Review of Books article, "The Shoah After Gaza." Check out Pankaj's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
03.20.2024
On Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism." This will be Sophie's fourth...
03.19.2024
Facebook, Instagram Censor Peaceful Pro-Palestinian Speech / Deborah Brown & Rasha Younes
Deborah Brown and Rasha Younes of Human Rights Watch join This Is Hell! to discuss their report, "Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Deborah and Rasha's report here:...
03.18.2024
Normalizing Slaughter / Oded Na'aman
Oded Na'aman joins This Is Hell! to discuss his Boston Review article, "A Menacing Silence: Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?" After the interview, we hear share some feedback from our dear listeners. Check out...
03.13.2024
Effective Antifascism Requires Understanding Fascism / Joan Braune
We wrap up the week with lecturer in philosophy at Gonzaga University, Joan Braune who will speak with us about her book, "Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the...
03.12.2024
Can Humanity Survive AI? / Garrison Lovely
Garrison Lovely on his Jacobin article, "Can Humanity Survive AI?: With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now." Check out Garrison's...
03.11.2024
Jesus and John Wayne / Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Historian Kristen du Mez on her bestselling cultural history, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." Check out Kristin's book here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631499050 Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes...
03.07.2024
Western Governments, Media Complicit in Genocide / Hamza Ali Shah
Hamza Ali Shah discusses his Jacobin article, “Western Governments Share Responsibility for Israel’s Crimes," and his Declassified UK writing, "‘Beheaded Babies' – How UK media Reported Israel’s Fake News as Fact." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the...
03.06.2024
The Erasure of Palestinian Society / Wendy Pearlman
Wendy Pearlman discusses her New Lines Magazine article, "The Erasure of Palestinian Society." Seb's final (at least for a while, we hope) "The Past Inside the Present" follows the interview. Check out Wendy's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-erasure-of-palestinian-society/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely...
03.05.2024
Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed
Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Safa's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/hindutva-us-right-gujarat-pogrom-modi Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access...
03.05.2024
Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed
Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Safa's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/hindutva-us-right-gujarat-pogrom-modi Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access...
02.29.2024
The Fascism of Revisionist Zionism / Rick Perlstein
The American Prospect's Rick Perlstein on Israel's neglected history of revisionism, and a belated obit for Henry Kissinger. Also, we're announcing the winner of this week's Question from Hell!, a QFH! suggested by Rick. Check out Rick's article here: https://prospect.org/world/2024-02-21-neglected-history-state-of-israel/ and here: https://prospect.org/politics/2024-02-28-kissinger-revisited/ Help...
02.28.2024
The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem / Andrew Cockburn
Harper's Andrew Cockburn returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his March cover story, "The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem: How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check...
02.22.2024
Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement / Amy Cooter
Sociologist Amy Cooter joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Routledge, "Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement." After the interview, we announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell! Check out Amy's book here: https://www.routledge.com/Nostalgia-Nationalism-and-the-US-Militia-Movement/Cooter/p/book/9781032421971 Help...
02.21.2024
Guns Fuel US Anti-Immigration Politics / Emine Fidan Elcioglu
Emine Fidan Elcioglu on her Social Problems journal article, “Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Emine's article here: https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spad034/7222583 Help keep This Is Hell!...
02.20.2024
Enshittification Made Tech Platforms Shitty and Now It's Coming for Your Industry / Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow on his Financial Times article, "‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?" "Rotten History" follows the interview. Check out Cory's article...
02.15.2024
The Crime of Electronic Monitoring / Jacob Kang-Brown & James Kilgore
Joining This Is Hell! today are Jacob Kang-Brown and James Gilgore to discuss the uses, abuses, and inequities of the use of wearable electronic monitoring devices in the US criminal legal system. Jacob co-authored the Vera Institute report, "People on...
02.14.2024
The Battle to Control Haiti / Jake Johnson
Returning to This is Hell!, Jake Johnston is author of the new book, "Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti." Jake is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "The...
02.13.2024
Black Women, Ivory Tower / Jasmine Harris
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Broadleaf Books, "Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education." "Rotten History" follows the interview, as do your first batch of...
02.07.2024
The Final Nail in Psychiatry's Antidepressant Coffin / Bruce Levine
Bruce E. Levine on his CounterPunch article, "Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin." Also, Jeff Dorchen and the 'Moment of Truth.' Check out Bruce's article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/17/scientific-misconduct-and-fraud-the-final-nail-in-psychiatrys-antidepressant-coffin/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access...
02.06.2024
What's in Store for Milwaukee at this Summer's RNC? / Rachel Ida Buff
Our guest is Rachel Ida Buff who posted the Boston Review article, “The Right Comes for Milwaukee: Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?” Also, 'This Week...
02.05.2024
Human Rights Under El Salvador's "Cool Dictator" / John Cavanagh
Institute for Policy Studies' John Cavanagh on their report on El Salvador, "State of Deception: A fact-finding report on El Salvador’s detained water defenders, the potential return of environmentally destructive mining, and the state of human rights under the Bukele...
02.02.2024
Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror / Maha Hilal
Our final guest of the week is Dr. Maha Hilal, who wrote the TomDispatch piece, "Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)." Maha is founding...
01.31.2024
The Brutal Illogic of the US Attacks on Yemen / Séamus Malekafzali
Séamus Malekafzali joins This Is Hell! talk to us about his Baffler article, "More Fog, More War: The brutal illogic of the U.S. attacks on Yemen." The Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Séamus' article here:...
01.30.2024
The Female Body Drove Human Evolution and that Matters in Big Ways / Cat Bohannon
Researcher Cat Bohannon joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Knopf, "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution." Rotten History follows the interview. Check out Cat's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227568/eve-by-cat-bohannon/ Help keep This Is Hell!...
01.25.2024
The Jail Is Everywhere / Jack Norton & Judah Schept
Jack Norton and Judah Schept join This Is Hell! to discuss their forthcoming volume, co-authored with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration" available February 14th from Verso. After the interview, Sebastian Wuepper returns...
01.24.2024
Bombing Gaza Isn't Fighting Sexual Violence / Heidi Matthews & Tanya Serisier
Joining us today in Hell are Heidi Matthews and Tanya Serisier, who co-wrote the CounterPunch article, "Bombing Gaza Isn’t Fighting Sexual Violence." A Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out their article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/16/bombing-gaza-isnt-fighting-sexual-violence/ Help keep This Is...
01.23.2024
Against Resilience / Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World" (Repeater Books). An all-new Rotten History follows...
01.17.2024
Killing Detroit / Christopher Hood
Christopher Hood, author of the award-winning script and film, “Killing Detroit: The City That Refused To Die,” that is now in book form. A new Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely...
01.16.2024
How Police Undermine The Promise of Body Cameras / Eric Umansky
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky joins This Is Hell! to discuss his recent ProPublica article, "How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras." A new Rotten History follows the interview. Check out Eric's piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras Help keep This Is Hell! completely...
01.15.2024
A Black Panther's Take on Obama's Election / Larry Pinkney
On MLK Day 2024, we share a 2008 talk with Black Panther Larry Pinkney and his hot and very critical take on Barack Obama shortly after Obama was elected president and before he was inaugurated. Help keep This Is Hell! completely...
01.09.2024
Detroit Eviction Defense Battles for Housing Justice / Jeff Wilson
This Is Hell! returns with new interviews this week! Kicking off 2024, geographer Jeff Wilson joins us to discuss his new graphic novel he co-created with Bambi Kramer, "We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice"...
01.04.2024
Best of 2023: Revolting Capital - Racism & Radicalism in Washington, DC, 1900-2000 / Gerald Horne
The Best of 2023 concludes with listener-favorite historian Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers). Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/revolting-capital-racism-radicalism-in-washington-d-c-1900-2000/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly...
01.03.2024
Best of 2023: Building Movements is Uncomfortable. That's a Good Thing / Kelly Hayes
The penultimate Best of 2023 episode features a September interview with Truthout's Kelly Hayes on the article she co-wrote the Boston Review essay with past guest Mariame Kaba, “How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a...
01.02.2024
Best of 2023: Silicon Valley Vs. Humanity / Malcolm Harris
The Best of 2023 continues with our April interview with Malcolm Harris on his Little, Brown and Company book, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World." After the interview, we read your first answers to 2024's first...
12.28.2023
Best of 2023: The Revolution Will Not Be Scheduled / Sheila Liming
The Best of 2023 continues with writer, professor and musician Sheila Liming on her recently published book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time." Check out Sheila's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access...
12.27.2023
Best of 2023: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester / Miliaku Nwabueze
The best of 2023 continues with Miliaku Nwabueze on her May 5 Scalawag essay, "How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester." Check out Miliaku's article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/black-radical-tradition-cop-city/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported...
12.26.2023
Best of 2023: Living and Reliving the U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rasha Al Aqeedi
The Best of 2023 continues with our April 10th interview with Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq." Check out Rasha's article here: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/living-and-reliving-the-us-invasion-of-iraq/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely...
12.20.2023
Best of 2023: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care / M.E. O'Brien
The Best of 2023 continues! M.E. O’Brien joins us in Hell to discuss her new book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" published by Pluto Press. Check out M.E.'s book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343846/family-abolition/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported...
12.19.2023
Best of 2023: Unpacking the Myths Fueling the Right's Transphobia / Alex Hinton
Continuing the Best of 2023 series, distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." The discussion includes Alex's insights from the most recent CPAC. This interview originally aired on...
12.18.2023
Best of 2023: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy / Claire Provost & Matt Kennard
The Best of 2023 continues with Matt Kennard and Claire Provost on their Bloomsbury book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy." This interview originally aired on May 16th. Check out "Silent Coup" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/silent-coup-9781350269989/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported...
12.14.2023
Best of 2023: The Long Land War / Jo Guldi
The Best of 2023 continues with historian Jo Guldi on her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man," on land redistribution which is adapted from her Yale University Press book, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights."...
12.13.2023
Best of 2023: American Agriculture Is about Money, not Food / Alan Guebert
The Best of 2023 continues with our October interview with Alan Guebert who had just posted the The Baffler Magazine article, “Farmed Out: American agriculture is about business, not food.” Plus, a Moment of Truth with Jeffrey Dorchen and your answers...

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This Is Hell! episodes:

India-Israel Worker Deal Looks like Indentured Servitude / Michelle Buckley & Paula Chakravartty

The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped / Keri Leigh Merritt

Accenture Is Taking Over Police Reform in LA County / Alec Karakatsanis & Hamid Khan

The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

Judicial Supremacy in the US / Lisa Heinzerling

Hamas' Journey from Charitable Org to National Liberation Force / Assaf Kfoury

Lederhosen Nazis, "Dancing Queen," and other Vibes from CPAC 2024 / Gaby Del Valle

The Shoah After Gaza / Pankaj Mishra

On Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis

Facebook, Instagram Censor Peaceful Pro-Palestinian Speech / Deborah Brown & Rasha Younes

Normalizing Slaughter / Oded Na'aman

Effective Antifascism Requires Understanding Fascism / Joan Braune

Can Humanity Survive AI? / Garrison Lovely

Jesus and John Wayne / Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Western Governments, Media Complicit in Genocide / Hamza Ali Shah

The Erasure of Palestinian Society / Wendy Pearlman

Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed

Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed

The Fascism of Revisionist Zionism / Rick Perlstein

The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem / Andrew Cockburn

Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement / Amy Cooter

Guns Fuel US Anti-Immigration Politics / Emine Fidan Elcioglu

Enshittification Made Tech Platforms Shitty and Now It's Coming for Your Industry / Cory Doctorow

The Crime of Electronic Monitoring / Jacob Kang-Brown & James Kilgore

The Battle to Control Haiti / Jake Johnson

Black Women, Ivory Tower / Jasmine Harris

The Final Nail in Psychiatry's Antidepressant Coffin / Bruce Levine

What's in Store for Milwaukee at this Summer's RNC? / Rachel Ida Buff

Human Rights Under El Salvador's "Cool Dictator" / John Cavanagh

Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror / Maha Hilal

The Brutal Illogic of the US Attacks on Yemen / Séamus Malekafzali

The Female Body Drove Human Evolution and that Matters in Big Ways / Cat Bohannon

The Jail Is Everywhere / Jack Norton & Judah Schept

Bombing Gaza Isn't Fighting Sexual Violence / Heidi Matthews & Tanya Serisier

Against Resilience / Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Killing Detroit / Christopher Hood

How Police Undermine The Promise of Body Cameras / Eric Umansky

A Black Panther's Take on Obama's Election / Larry Pinkney

Detroit Eviction Defense Battles for Housing Justice / Jeff Wilson

Best of 2023: Revolting Capital - Racism & Radicalism in Washington, DC, 1900-2000 / Gerald Horne

Best of 2023: Building Movements is Uncomfortable. That's a Good Thing / Kelly Hayes

Best of 2023: Silicon Valley Vs. Humanity / Malcolm Harris

Best of 2023: The Revolution Will Not Be Scheduled / Sheila Liming

Best of 2023: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester / Miliaku Nwabueze

Best of 2023: Living and Reliving the U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rasha Al Aqeedi

Best of 2023: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care / M.E. O'Brien

Best of 2023: Unpacking the Myths Fueling the Right's Transphobia / Alex Hinton

Best of 2023: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy / Claire Provost & Matt Kennard

Best of 2023: The Long Land War / Jo Guldi

Best of 2023: American Agriculture Is about Money, not Food / Alan Guebert

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